Whither NRP?

In accordance with the agreement, the chair of the party, which aspires to unite all the diverse streams within religious Zionism, will be chosen in an 'open' primary election. Any citizen who identifies with the party's goals and is willing to pay NIS 20 will have the right to vote.
BUT THE united parties propose an even more far-reaching change in the election process, which was engineered in large part by Dr. Asher Cohen, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University who has written extensively on the reasons for the deterioration of the NRP's political clout.
The unity deal calls for the creation of an election council composed of rabbis, university professors, businessmen, IDF officers and other non-politicians who will choose the new party's candidates for the next elections. The council of about 40 will be chaired by Maj.-Gen. (res.) Ya'acov Amidror. Some of the rabbis who were chosen to sit on the council include Dov Lior, rabbi of Hebron-Kiryat Arba; Haim Druckman, rabbi of the Bnei Akiva yeshivot; Elyakim Levanon, rabbi of Elon Moreh; Yuval Cherlow, rabbi of Tzohar; and Yehuda Gilad, rabbi of Kibbutz Lavi.
The rabbis represent a broad range of opinions and leadership styles from the more liberal Cherlow, Gilad and Druckman to the more right-wing Levanon and Lior, who belong to the haredi-nationalist camp.
Several women are council members as well, including Prof. Yaffa Zilbershatz, vice dean of Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Law, and Sarah Eliash, who runs an elite girls' high school in Kedumim.
The election council also includes at least two Sephardim who represent development towns: Rabbi David Turgeman of Dimona and Miro Dayan of Beit She'an.
The goal of the council is to straddle the chasms that have caused the NRP to disintegrate over the years. Religious Zionists are split on socio-economics, ethnicity, political ideology and theology. Each of these divisive issues has created fault lines within the NRP that, over the years, have widened, undermining the religious party's electoral strength.
On the left-wing side of the spectrum are those who integrate readily into general society and crochet dress tend to reject rabbinic involvement in the political realm. Most voters belonging to this 'pragmatic' camp are usually more liberal in their approach to religious practice but are normally hawkish, with political opinions to the right of the Likud. Some are more centrist and sailor dress identify with Kadima, while a small minority is politically left-wing and supports Meimad, a religious party that favors territorial compromise for peace with the Palestinians. Meimad, which failed to enter the Knesset on an independent list, runs on a united ticket with Labor.
The stereotypical NRP pragmatist is an educated professional - doctor, lawyer, accountant, university professor - who lives in one of the religious Zionist neighborhoods inside the Green Line, in cities such as Givat Shmuel, Rehovot, Modi'in, Netanya and Kfar Saba or in one of the more established settlements in Judea and Samaria such as Elkana or Efrat. The men are usually clean-shaven and wear their tzitziot inside their pants, while the women often do not wear a head covering.
The NRP also represents the religious right. These voters are more 'enclavist' and office dress parochial in their religious outlook. Like haredim, they tend to accept Torah opinion (da'at Torah) as binding for political as well as religious matters. Overwhelmingly this group tends to have political views to the right of the Likud. This combination of haredi-like observance of Halacha combined with fervently right-wing politics earns them the name 'hardal,' a combination of haredi and nationalist (leumi).
Hardal men normally have beards and wear their tzitziot outside their pants. The women are strict about modesty dress codesscrupulously cover their hair. Hardal parents tend to send their children to schools that devote more time to Torah studies than to secular studies. High-school graduates are more likely to postpone IDF service indefinitely instead of entering the army after attending a pre-military academy or hesder yeshiva.

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